Tom Carper actually said...

"Do we have any idea of the degree to which a baby born with this disease--this brain disease that you have described--to what extent does it impair their ability to function?"

"If not the Vice President, how about the junior Senator from, maybe, New Jersey? He does not have much going on now."

"one of their recommendations spoke--or at least attempted to speak to the point you have just made."

"There ought to be somebody in the Administration, one senior person, to lead it."